Video: Madeira VOR 05 circling approach

Here you can see 2 VOR 05 circling approaches at Funchal, Madeira (LPMA) - one in daylight, one at dusk.  I used the new Aerosoft Madeira X evolution scenery and liked it, especially the leed in lights. Below there is a link to a youtube video of a real VOR 05 approach, quite nice to compare the scenery.

Approach in a real B737:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kSvOGU ... ubs_digest

LED strobes and LED landing lights

For more,  I believe,  realistic strobe effects, I installed some simple LED, that are connected to an LED flasher (see link below). They flash onto the curved screen. To make them more dim, they are covered by some ND filter- and milkglass film. At the flasher, the trim Poti had to be changed for a 50 or 100kOhm one to achieve flashing intervalls of more than 1 sec.

The strobes are activated by the strobe switch when on ground. In air some more conditions have to be met. In reality ofcourse you see them only from the cockpit, if the plane is in heavy precipitation, cloud or low visibility and relative darkness. 

These datas come from the AS16 weather software. The Incloud status is not precise to date. According to Active Sky this depends mainly on the kind of cloud textures used. The incloud status is often supressed by AS16 to avoid other negative side effects (e.g. with cloud motion). I tried to work arround this problem by using visibility and precipitation. Not perfect, but so far ok for me.

For this and other purpose, Benny has made a C++  .dll that reads out the AS16 API (Actice sky weather software) and writes some numbers into user FSUIPC offsets. These then can be used inside a lua. This lua finally plays different, short sounds via the Prosim sound modul for the buttkickers. A random function in the lua makes the sounds play in different sequences, so no equal patterns can be heard anyhow.
(See also the post at flightX, in german language: http://flightx.net/index.php?thread/91863-as16-api-auslesen-as-btstrp-dll/). The .dll and further information can be downloaded here.

To give you an idea and something to play with, if you like, 2 versions of LUA can be downloaded here, one includes also the daytime and shuts strobes off over the day. The latter was made by Markus (https://737cockpit.info/2017/02/03/strobe-lights-working/)

This flasher is used, Klick to follow link

Video: Farewell Bobby - A Lufthansa Boeing 737 tribute

This emotional video was made by Sebastian (see last post):

Video: Oslo to Bergen - pilot and air traffic controller

Sebastian, air traffic controller and Raphael, one of the last "Bobby" Lufthansa pilots having a good time in my sim. It was a lot of fun to fly with these professionals !

Video: Cabin depress followed by a rapid descent

On a flight from Oslo to Evenes we experienced a major cabin depressurization at FL300. The cabin pressure was not controllable, so we made an emergency descent to FL100. Then we diverted to Trondhjem. We, young sim-captain Tobias and me, did our best, but the procedures are not 100% professional. Hope you enjoy.

The oxygen mask get there pressurized air from a 300 bar diving-fillup bottle:

New video channel is up

First Video in Sim with Shell: Takeoff and Landing at Paro, Bhutan

One of my first Videos: Approach at rw05 Madeira, crosswind